Sunday, May 15, 2016

Two grids on the Hypergrid recently experienced DDOS attacks. This article explains in layman's terms, what a DDOS attack is, how it will affect you, and what you can do about it (not much). This is an issue that may lead grid operators to organize and meet to explore methods of making such attacks less effective.

DoS, DDoS

In computing, a denial-of-service (DoS) attack is an attempt to make a machine or network resource unavailable to its intended users, such as to temporarily or indefinitely interrupt or suspend services of a host connected to the Internet. A distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) is where the attack source is more than one, often thousands of, unique IP addresses. It is analogous to a group of people crowding the entry door or gate to a shop or business, and not letting legitimate parties enter into the shop or business, disrupting normal operations. (Wikipedia)

News and Notes

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The Hypergrid WIP is a one hour "show & tell" of works in progress or recently completed. All builders from beginner to pro are invited. Presentations are in voice and text. For text presentations, best bring the text in a notecard and paste it into chat. Voice presentations may be captured in video. Stills and videos from the show may appear in this blog and elsewhere.

Next WIP show

Next WIP show: Sun. May 22, Noon SLT

Cookie II location (fourth Sunday of the month)

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